Making Love in the Kitchen

Well hello there October. I love your beautiful colours and crunchy leaves. Where have you been hiding? I was walking to the Raw Food Power workshop last Saturday and there was a little chill in the air, the leaves were really crispy, and I felt that this was the very first day of Fall. No more swealtering Indian Summer weather going on over here. It’s officially sweater and hot smoothie latte time. In this kitchen we sure are getting into the Autumn spirit with everything from Alexa’s cozy cookies to orange coloured ice-cream. Sounds pretty good right?

It really is the best time of year in my opinion. Just taking a walk in your neighbourhood exposes you to all the goodness of the season. Here are some fun Fall facts:

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I was offered a task. It’s one of those tasks that make me want to cartwheel over the kind of tasks that have become part of my job.

My long lost lover, fellow nutritionista, long distance pen pal, around the world adventurer, and momma friend Gabriela, the wordstress and recipe mistress behind the blog The Picky Foodie, emailed me asking if I would play in her cookie games.

Her desire was to for 10 of her food loving/ baking friends from around the fair globe to take her basic cookie recipe and make it our own.

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What a busy time of year this summer is! We rush, and rush, and rush so we can have weekends or even better, weeks free to max and relax, travel, go camping, whatever it may be.

So the timing was just about perfect when this amazing package arrived for me in the mail from one of our most amazing supporters, Navitas Naturals.

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Did you LOVE with all your might Lisa Borden’s post yesterday? She’s the newest to be introduced member of my Superhero Posse. She it totally my secret weapon. Man I love that woman. Speaking of women I love, Jen also totally rocked out on Chlorella. Talk about Love In The Time Of Chlorella. That stuff is powerful and I have been taking it since we were sent all those amazing samples from Sun Chlorella. I really can tell a difference.

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As I continue my transition to a completely whole foods based healing diet, there are still random ingredients in the health food store that I am new to discovering. One of the foods that most recently became a regular in my life, spent a long time on the “I want to try this but what [...]

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I often invite people to snoop into my cupboard. During my cooking classes, people like to peek in but my friends do too. The most common question is, “Where are your chips and crackers, your snack food?” And the short answer is always the same, “I haven’t made them yet”. We know that I have [...]

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The moment you’ve all been waiting for! Here are the details… well, some of the basics. Somehow the writing below got a little serious- but just wanted to get all this inormation out and besides- cleansing is a seriously awesome endeavor! Start Date: Sunday, April 19th First Things First For those of you who are [...]

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If you live in the Toronto area and looking for something healthy and inspiring to do this Sunday afternoon, check out my Healthy Meal Prep Workshop. Now on with the Cranberry Lesson Cranberries are beautiful, but boy do they pack a mean sour punch. We usually have our cranberries in the form of sauce where [...]

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Last week I had a Guess The Ingredient List Contest to see who could guess the name of the product that was made up of this ridiculously long and synthetic list of ingredients: ENRICHED FLOUR (WHEAT FLOUR, NIACINAMIDE, REDUCED IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], FOLIC ACID), SUGAR, DEXTROSE, VEGETABLE OIL (SOYBEAN, PALM, [...]

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Before I begin the recipe post- Just want to remind you that the first Guess The Ingredient List contest ends Friday- so if you haven’t made your guess yet- get on that! I was calling the ladies tea that I hosted on Sunday ‘Tea and Crumpets’. Thankfully by the time everyone got here, saw the [...]

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Am I going to too far with the whole ‘Making Love In The Kitchen’ themed posts? You should see the creepy search terms people put into google that land them on my site. I can only imagine how disappointed someone must be when they type in “grandma making love videos” and come upon silly me [...]

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Is there really anything sweeter than the ooey gooey delicousness of apples and cinnamon baking in the oven? The theme of a recent cooking party I hosted was  healthy comfort food and the dessert we cooked up was baked apples. They are crazy simple, require the littlest bit of prep time and are so warming, [...]

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And here concludes what I am affectionately referring to as Season 1 of Making Love In The Kitchen. Together we have learned the ways of the farm, cleansed some cupboards, made pumpkin soup in costume, tossed black licorice into a fire, toured my grandmother’s freezer, blended up some nut milk, past out apples to strangers, [...]

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I have a friend staying with me at the moment. House guests are challenging for me for many reason. The main ones are that I live in a loft with no walls and I work from home. The other challenge, though more for my guests than for myself, is obviously going to be my eating [...]

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I have been in the dating world for some time now, and this little organic lifestyle that I live, often throws the boys off as for what to do on a date. I don’t drink alcohol and I don’t drink coffee. For whatever reason, my not drinking either coffee or alcohol, somehow brings these boys [...]

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